Puzzle.



J. A. BROGAN & M. BRUNER.

PUZZLE. APPLICATION FILED QOT. 2, 1914.

1,132,430. Patented Mar. 16, 1915.

PETERS 60., PHOTO-LITHLI, WASHINGTON, D L.

"HF NORRIS CHUSETTS.

PUZZLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 16, 1915.

Application filed October 2, 1914. Serial No. 864,645.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, JAMES A. BROGAN andMEYLERT BRUNER, citizens of the United States, residing, respectively,at Lawrence, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, and atNewton, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Puzzles, of which the followingis a specification.

The present invention relates to puzzles.

The object of the invention is to produce a puzzle which will have anintricate mode of operation and be solved with difficulty.

0 the accomplishment of this object, and

parts, hereinafter described and then set forth broadly and in detailclaims, which possess advantages which will be apparent to those skilledhe various features of vention will be readily understood from an theinvention, in which,

Figure l is a plan of the puzzle with the rolls having the charactersthereon arranged in the slots of the rotatable disk in a predeterminedorder, namely, to indicate the term ew door, Fig. 2 is a plan showingthe puzzle with the rolls in the position to which they are brought whenthe puzzle has been solved, and Fig. 3 is a central sectional elevationof Fig. 2.

In the illustrated embodiment of the invention the puzzle comprises afiat plate 1 The disks 7 are separated from each other by a slendercylindrical neck 8 which is loosely embraced by the slots in the disk.Seven of these rolls are provided with characters and the rolls arearranged in a that these characters indicate the term New door. We havediscovered that the characters comprising this term This discovery formsthe basis of hen the puzzle is slot It will be apparent to those skilledin this class of puzzles that changes may be made in the details ofstructure the described and illustrated embodiment thereof beingintended as an exploitation of its underlying essentials, the featureswhereof are definitely stated in their true scope herewith.

at is claimed as new, is 1. A puzzle having a body portion proterm Newdoor, said movable elements adapted to be shifted to form the term Onesuch manner,

predetermined order so word. V c 2. A puzzle having a body portionprovided with movable elements bearing the characters N, E, W, D, O, O,R.

A puzzle having in combination, a plate, a disk having a slottedperiphery rotatably mounted thereon, a plurality of rolls bearing thecharacters N, E, W, D, O, O, R, normally arranged in the slots ofthe'disk in a predetermined order, and means permitting the rolls to beremoved disk and arranged on the plate, said rolls Q from the beingcapable of arrangement to indicate mitting the rolls to be shifted toform the the telim One Word. term One Word.

4. puzzle, having in combination, a plate, a disk having a slottedperiphery ro- 5 tatably mounted thereon, and a plurality of l rollshaving characters thereon, said rolls Witnesses: bearing charactersnormally arranged to in- WALTER Barns FARR, dicate the term New door,and means per- NELSON B. Tom).

Copies of! this patent may be obtained. for five cents each, byaddressing the Commissioner of Patents Washington, D. 0.

